School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)Domhnac Féac Suas
or Look up Sunday is the first Sunday after Little Christmas Day. It is so called because long ago the girls and women who were intended to marry soon used to spend hours looking up at the sky as they thought by doing so they would see the face of their future husband. - The churns of today are far different to those of olden times. There were no stands for the old fashioned churns and they had to be placed on a table or seat. The churn was kept in place by tying(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork